The total acres burned so far this year in Canada is more than the total amount of land burned by wildfires in the U.S. since 2019, according to ABC News calculations, based on data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The acreage burned in Canada this year so far doubles t...
The Canadian Forest Service also delivered new wildfire intelligence tactical mapping products to provinces and territories, and in 2023 the U.S. Department of Defense deployed FireGuard, a new high-tech fire detection system, to help Canada battle wildfi...
said: "The science plainly shows that the climate crisis is making the unrelenting impacts we've seen this summer more frequent and more extreme, while polls show that Canadians are connecting the dots: most Canadians believe that climate change is to blame for the ...
This satellite image released by the NASA Earth Observatory shows the smokey landcape of British Columbia province in southwestern Canada British Columbia declared a province-wide state of emergency Wednesday as Canada's military joined firefighters in trying to douse 556 wildfires burning across the cr...
above-threshold area ratios all dropped sharply. At the same time in Vancouver, due to the impact of wildfires, the above-threshold area ratio did not decrease even during the lockdown period. With the start of the first-stage reopening in Toronto, the areas above different NO2threshold ...
Fragmentation dynamics by dominant forest disturbance showed that harvest activities generally lead to an increase in fragmentation related to the amount of forest cover (composition), while wildfires result in increasing fragmentation as a function of the spatial arrangement of the forest. The results ...
In Canada, the size and frequency of large wildfires (>200 ha) is increasing as is the length of the fire season2,3. The 2023 fire season in Canada burned an unprecedented 14.9 Mha, or roughly seven times the 1986–2022 average5, which largely drove a 24% increase in global ...
Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st century. Glob Change Biol. 2009;15(6):1491–510. Article Google Scholar Weed AS, Ayres MP, Hicke JA. Consequences of climate change for biotic disturbances in North American forests. Ecol Monogr. ...
This image provided by Maxar Technologies, shows wildfires in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada on Aug. 15, 2023.AP MORE: Air quality concerns in US will continue through summer due to Canada's wildfires The CIFFC National Preparedness Level in Canada has been at its highest...
"All the provinces and territories are increasingly trying to shift focus towards a greater emphasis on preventing human-caused wildfires in the first place, and proactively mitigating risks from fires before they occur."...